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We present an asymptotically optimal $(\epsilon,\delta)$ differentially private mechanism for answering multiple, adaptively asked, $\Delta$-sensitive queries, settling the conjecture of Steinke and Ullman [2020]. Our algorithm has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yuval Dagan , Gil Kur

Gaussian smoothed sliced Wasserstein distance has been recently introduced for comparing probability distributions, while preserving privacy on the data. It has been shown, in applications such as domain adaptation, to provide performances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Maxime Berar , Gilles Gasso

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in $k$ steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of $t$ steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Differential privacy mechanism design has traditionally been tailored for a scalar-valued query function. Although many mechanisms such as the Laplace and Gaussian mechanisms can be extended to a matrix-valued query function by adding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Thee Chanyaswad , Alex Dytso , H. Vincent Poor , Prateek Mittal

Machine learning (ML) models trained by differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) have much lower utility than the non-private ones. To mitigate this degradation, we propose a DP Laplacian smoothing SGD (DP-LSSGD) to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Bao Wang , Quanquan Gu , March Boedihardjo , Farzin Barekat , Stanley J. Osher

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the canonical approach to private deep learning. While the current privacy analysis of DP-SGD is known to be tight in some settings, several empirical results suggest that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Anvith Thudi , Hengrui Jia , Casey Meehan , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

Differential Privacy (DP) is a probabilistic framework that protects privacy while preserving data utility. To protect the privacy of the individuals in the dataset, DP requires adding a precise amount of noise to a statistic of interest;…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-05 Yu-Wei Chen , Pranav Sanghi , Jordan Awan

We initiate a systematic study of worst-group risk minimization under $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy (DP). The goal is to privately find a model that approximately minimizes the maximal risk across $p$ sub-populations (groups)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xinyu Zhou , Raef Bassily

Differential privacy (DP) provides robust privacy guarantees for statistical inference, but this can lead to unreliable results and biases in downstream applications. While several noise-aware approaches have been proposed which integrate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Talal Alrawajfeh , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

Many data applications have certain invariant constraints due to practical needs. Data curators who employ differential privacy need to respect such constraints on the sanitized data product as a primary utility requirement. Invariants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Jie Gao , Ruobin Gong , Fang-Yi Yu

In this paper, we are concerned with differentially private {stochastic gradient descent (SGD)} algorithms in the setting of stochastic convex optimization (SCO). Most of the existing work requires the loss to be Lipschitz continuous and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-23 Puyu Wang , Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying , Hai Zhang

Differential privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee that prevents adversaries with access to machine learning models from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jie Fu , Zhili Chen , XinPeng Ling

With rise of machine learning (ML) and the proliferation of smart mobile devices, recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in performing ML in wireless edge networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of jointly improving data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

Differentially Private (DP) data release is a promising technique to disseminate data without compromising the privacy of data subjects. However the majority of prior work has focused on scenarios where a single party owns all the data. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruihan Wu , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Jiankai Sun , Tianyi Liu , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chong Wang

In the arena of privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has outstripped the objective perturbation mechanism in popularity and interest. Though unrivaled in versatility, DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Rachel Redberg , Antti Koskela , Yu-Xiang Wang

We investigate unbiased high-dimensional mean estimators in differential privacy. We consider differentially private mechanisms whose expected output equals the mean of the input dataset, for every dataset drawn from a fixed bounded…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Aleksandar Nikolov , Haohua Tang

We consider the problem of generating private synthetic versions of real-world graphs containing private information while maintaining the utility of generated graphs. Differential privacy is a gold standard for data privacy, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Xu Zheng , Nicholas McCarthy , Jer Hayes

Differential Privacy (DP) has become a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. While it provides one of the most rigorous notions of privacy, there are many settings where its applicability is limited. Our main contribution is in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Aman Bansal , Rahul Chunduru , Deepesh Data , Manoj Prabhakaran

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi